Originally Posted by
everyotheridwasused
Thanks - we booked in January during the sale so will definitely be under the nTP bonus, just trying to work out how many I can expect as at the higher level I could retain Silver but if the lower will need to book a few more flights.
Have completely given up on retaining my Gold under the new system, so trying to put the bare minimum required on BA to retain Silver, as it is almost as good as gold for non-London based travellers like us!
I think it would be untruthful to say that any of us know for sure, the reality is that the bonus TPs were pretty ill-thought-through and the update not much better but I would think it very unlikely that a short haul flight, even if booked into First, would earn 550 bonus nTPs. Most likely it would get the same as a CE sector if BA coded i.e. 175 nTPs.
Does the same apply for current 140 oTP sectors in the US? I don't know, but I would guess that they might get 400 nTPs as a bonus.
The T&Cs don't really shed any light on it. Although I do find it quite amusing that they say you have to be a member of the British Airways EXECUTIVE club to get the bonus TPs!